The Great Recession
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface - David B. Grusky, Christopher Wimer, and Bruce Western -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Consequences of the Great Recession - David B. Grusky, Bruce Western and Christopher Wimer -- Chapter 2. The Roots of the Great Recession - Neil Fligstein and Adam Goldstein -- Part II: Economic Effects: The Labor Market, Income and Poverty, and Wealth and Housing -- Chapter 3. Job Loss and Unemployment - Michael Hout, Asaf Levanon, and Erin Cumberworth -- Chapter 4. Poverty and Income Inequality in the Early Stages of the Great Recession - Timothy M. Smeeding, Jeffrey P. Thompson, Asaf Levanon, and Esra Burak -- Chapter 5. How Much Wealth Was Destroyed in the Great Recession? - Edward N. Wolff, Lindsay A. Owens, and Esra Burak -- Part III. Social Effects: Consumption, Attitudes, and Family -- Chapter 6. An Analysis of Trends, Perceptions, and Distributional Effects in Consumption - Ivaylo D. Petev, Luigi Pistaferri, and Itay Saporta-Eksten -- Chapter 7. The Suprisingly Weak Effect of Recessions on Public Opinion - Lane Kenworthy and Lindsay A. Owens -- Chapter 8. The Great Recession's Influence on Fertility, Marriage, Divorce, and Cohabitation - S. Philip Morgan, Erin Cumberworth, and Christopher Wimer -- Part IV. The Collective Response: The Government and Charitable Giving -- Chapter 9. The Federal Stimulus Programs and Their Effects - Gary Burtless and Tracy Gordon -- Chapter 10. Has the Great Recession Made Americans Stingier? - Rob Reich, Christopher Wimer, Shazad Hohmed, and Sharda Jambulapati -- Index.